Life is full of great moments, those times where your chest fills with the pride of knowing you busted your ass and put on a blue-collar performance worthy of an AFL-CIO endorsement. CONTAGIOUS goes to the publisher, warts and all, and no matter what you all think of it the book, this blood-spotted keyboard is proof that I put everything I had into making this the best novel possible.

The rush I’m experiencing right now is indescribeable. This is what it felt like to some Egyptian dude when he dropped that last block onto the pyramid, and then said, "Hey, Ezekiel, it’s Miller Time, brah." So much work went into this. So many life changes in the last five months. The passing of a beloved dog, the illness of a family member. The Evil Queen™ returns from Michigan tomorrow, and I can finally dedicate my full attention to her in her time of crisis. Life giveth, and life taketh away.

I have put my very being into this rat bastard. I want it to rock you like Queen would if Freddy Merc were still with us. I want it to lock the breath in your throat, grab your privates in a not-so-nice way, make your stomach flip and your nips all hard and tingly. I want it to smash you flat like a Matt Wallace snap-souplex.

Above all, I want CONTAGIOUS to entertain you. You Damn Dirty Junkies have no idea what you all mean to me, and I hope this one hits you so hard you fly into the ditch with your empty shoes still on the road. CONTAGIOUS is my love letter to y’all.

And for you aspiring novelists asking if this level of committment and sacrifice is worth it? Yeah, it is.

I am your FDO™, and I do work.

About The Author

I'm the Director of Døøm here at Empty Set Entertainment, and a founding partner at Audacity Events, a San Diego based management company that builds world class events and manages one-of-a-kind talent. I'm a movie geek, Doctor Who fan, skeptic and science nerd. I don't like chocolate all that much.

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Ok, realistically I know it makes sense–Scott uses a Mac just like almost every other podcaster out there.

Still… I read in my history book that at the end of WW II, when the Japanese heard their emperor on the radio for the first time, they were let down because he sounded so human.

So that brings us to the screenshot: to see our FDO’s snippet of his Macintosh desktop there lookin’ all… I dunno… normal. Well, it gives me a shudder. I mean, next thing you know he’ll have a cute bunny screensaver or something.

Come on, FDO, where’s the blood and guts? You should have a black-and-bloody Desktop Theme at least.

cant wait to see it out in print. In other news im well on the way to hooking my 15 yr old daughters entire 10 th grade English class on your work. Hoping to hook the teacher first and then get them to add your Infected into the curriculum (sp) this year.

The inlaws sent me infected (from the wishlist) and chicken scissors (from the wedding registry) in the same order. I bet that they will follow up with this one. Can’t wait for more crypt and nocturnal.

What a hardworking FDO you are…..and after reading what you said about how you wanted CONTAGIOUS to rock us, lock us, grab us, flip us and tingle our nips and all, I had to smoke a long french cigarette……. I can’t wait!

Could the name be written in print and in history books about her? or would they have to change the name… when speaking her name on TV would they Bleep it? I know she couln’t get a vanity plate for her car.Names are just so great, esp. when they are a little different.*I’m Rear Admiral but Sigler won a PARSEC*

Awesome stuff Mr Sigler and I know the pain you’ve been through – I just had to type about a million characters to get a password reset as I can’t get my home emails at work. Tell the damn digital golbins to keep those urls shorter than a squirrels junk…..

But seriously, Contagious is gonna rock, I just know it. We’ll allow you the time to kick back before finishing Nocturnal – we’re not that evil.

Congratulations Scott, you pushed that one out till it hurt, and had to endure several hardships along the way. Thank you for what you do. Know that it is important to us all(4000+!!) Get back to Michigan soon for a celebratory pub crawl….From GR but willing to travel.

If I’m right, each character is one byte. 772,504 characters translates to 754.4 KB, and then the formatting, so that’s about right. The text size and spacing is probably only around 10KB, which is read by the program as a pre-set thingy.

I would hate to think that she married into that unfortunately hilarious name, J/K Vanessa I think you should have it printed on a t shirt or a hat and proudly sport the name. That name is awesome, hey it got you killed by our FDO didn’t it?:)

I’m not sure, I lost track. A bunch, though. Funny thing is we have a Junkie who’s real name is "Vanessa Cockburn," and they wouldn’t let me use it because they though I was being a douche. So now it’s "Vanessa Coleburn," but you know it’s you, Vanessa!

Wow! You inspire awe as well as fear. You just have two things on your to do list. Take good care of the Evil Queen, and throw a party. Don’t add anything else to the list until those are done. Every victory deserves a celebration!

Oh, and don’t worry about the Junkies. You’ve dropped enough sweet juicy content on us lately to keep us happy for a while…

I hope you do not get the horrific moment at the end of all big projects when you get up and think "Why am I not at my keyboard – what did I do before this monster task?". It took me a painful year to write my thesis and I can’t imagine the level of concentration, frustration, stress and nuclear grade rage that came with switching to writing, wiritng to that kind of deadline – 1million characters!!! – and taking care of family business. Hat’s off to you all round and I wish you and your family a huge upswing in luck.

I managed to get a copy of Infected at Heathrow a few days before the official launch date – which made my holiday immense. Thanks for all the hardwork and time you put in to these things and I can’t wait for the next book to be sitting in my stocking come christmas (UK release for december?)

As A long-time "Starter-not-finisher" I hugely admire this accomplishment. And as one of your OJ’s, I cannot wait until I can get my greasy mitts on this puppy. I want more triangled goodness, and I want it yesterday!

Enjoy the high – you more than earned it.[I think, therefore I’m right. –Hugo Rune]

Well done sir, well done. The only dead line I ever had was a 4 page english paper back in high school. What you have done in the past month or two, well, that is dedication. I dont care what anyone else says, but you are truly one bad ass mo-fo.

I’ve a tear in my eye and it’s your fault. It might even be safe to look at Twitter after 8.00 PM again! Man, you’ve gone through it over the last few weeks and you deserve to feel the biggest rush you can get without being arrested. We’ve followed the ups and downs, the edits and rewrites, the crap life throws at you and yes, we are still here, still listening. Guess that does make us damned dirty junkies, and that’s just fine. Where does the line start for autograph copies?